Italian lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena announced on Friday it was launching a 13.3 billion euro ($13.9 billion) takeover bid for peer Mediobanca in a surprise move that could reshape the country’s ...

On the outskirts of Altadena, where one of the most destructive firestorms in Los Angeles history had just receded, a group of volunteers worked last week to gather fallen tree branches and leaves — ...

The Israeli government is seeking to keep military positions in southern Lebanon past a Sunday withdrawal deadline, set in a November ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah, the country’s ...

A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them has been sentenced to death, ...

When Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi was asked in 2007 to allow spoiled rice from Rwanda to be transported across the border ...

This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from ...

An Afghan women’s group on Friday hailed a decision by the International Criminal Court to arrest Taliban leaders for their ...

True to their promise, the Frye family paid the kindness forward in January 2025, surprising Dejahn with a handful of birthday gifts at Champs Sports in Triangle Town Center. Both boys are excited to ...

When Dania Hanatsheh was released from an Israeli jail this week and dropped off by bus into a sea of jubilant Palestinians ...

After Assad's fall, al-Baghdadi was finally able to return. Like many, he was euphoric and hoped it would pave the way for ...

As President Donald Trump prepares to tour wildfire damage in California, he's zeroing in on one of his frequent targets for criticism: State water policy.

When Dayana Castro heard that the U.S. asylum appointment she waited over a year for was canceled in an instant, she had no doubt: She was heading north any way she could.